Healing in the Bible is often dramatic and involves lame people walking and blind people seeing. But sometimes, and perhaps more often, healing is subtle and is about words of reconciliation and intentional overtures.
 
Monday – John 21:1-14
This inspiring resurrection story has Jesus cooking breakfast by the shore while the apostles fish. How does Peter react? Why do you think he might have been so specifically overjoyed?
Talk to the Lord about someone you would jump in the water and swim to with reckless abandon.
 
Tuesday – John 21:15
With this first question, let’s focus for a moment on the ‘more than these.’ Jesus could have meant do you love me more than these other apostles do, or he might have meant do you love me more than you love all these other people. Could there be another meaning? How do you take it?
Ask the Lord to show you how to love him more than you love anyone else.
 
Wednesday – John 21:16
In this second interrogative, Jesus asks Peter to ‘tend’ his sheep. The word tend is closely associated with the idea of shepherding. How is that different from simply ‘feeding’? How does one shepherd people?
Pray for someone who needs a shepherd but who may not know it.
 
Thursday – John 21:17
Why might Peter be grieved at the third question? How might he have taken it that would have caused him to question the Lord’s intentions toward him?
It is curious that there is a three-fold repetition of the question. Why do you think that might be?
Ask the Lord to show you someone’s words spoken to you which you mistook as negative but were really positive.
 
Friday – John 21:18-19
There is a lot of freight in these two verses, but one very heavy part of that is the apparent promise that Peter would live to be old. How might that kind of knowledge allow you to be bolder, which is what we see from Peter in the opening chapters of Acts? When was the last time certainty of eternal life made you bold?
Open the email from this week marked ‘Prayer and Praises’ and pray through the prayer list, then pray the Lord’s Prayer.